How to install your own cloud with Nextcloud on Linux Ubuntu and Debian

Nextcloud is a free file hosting and collaboration platform. Originally reachable through WebDAV, any web browser, or dedicated clients, its open architecture has allowed its features to grow well beyond their beginnings.

Prerequisites

1. Installing Apache2

sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2

2. Installing PHP on Linux and Debian

sudo apt install php

3. Installing the php dependencies

sudo apt install imagemagick php-imagick libapache2-mod-php php-common php-mysql php-fpm php-gd php-curl php-zip php-xml php-mbstring php-bz2 php-intl php-bcmath php-gmp

Restarting apache so that the PHP extensions are taken into account

sudo systemctl restart apache2

4. Installing a MySQL server: MariaDB

sudo apt install mariadb-server

To connect to mysql as the root user you can use the command

sudo mysql

5. Creating the database:

create database nextcloud;
create user nextclouduser@localhost identified by 'votre-mot-de-passe';
grant all privileges on nextcloud.* to nextclouduser@localhost identified by 'votre-mot-de-passe';
flush privileges;

exit;

Downloading Nextcloud from the official repository

wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest-24.zip

Once downloaded, the archive must be extracted with unzip.

sudo apt install unzip

sudo unzip latest-24.zip -d /var/www/html

So that the Apache web server can write in the directory, the owner of the directory must be changed to www-data.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/nextcloud/

Access and installation through the web interface

Access nextcloud with your http://votre-adresse-IP/nextcloud in a browser

Enter the credentials that suit you best for the Administrator account you are going to create.

The database information must be entered according to what you used when creating it. In this guide we have:

User: nextclouduser

Database name: nextcloud

Password: votre-mot-de-passe

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Creating a virtual host

To be done if you have a domain name!

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
        DocumentRoot "/var/www/nextcloud"
        ServerName nextcloud.domaine.com

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/nextcloud.error
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/nextcloud.access combined

        <Directory /var/www/nextcloud/>
            Require all granted
            Options FollowSymlinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride All

           <IfModule mod_dav.c>
               Dav off
           </IfModule>

        SetEnv HOME /var/www/nextcloud
        SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/nextcloud
        Satisfy Any

       </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

a2ensite nextcloud.conf

systemctl reload apache2

More coming very soon